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This work by Adam Gib is one of the best theological pieces on the Call of the Gospel in relation to the Atonement that Church history has bequeathed to us.
Gib rightly argues that one’s ground, or warrant, for coming to God for salvation is not in determining whether I am elect or not, nor in finding any work of grace in myself, or whether Christ died for me in particular, but whether I am a mankind-sinner, an ‘if any’ or a ‘whomsoever’, to whom God, by his revealed Word, graciously offers Christ with his all-sufficient atonement and perfect righteousness.
This complete atonement is sufficient and able, at God’s bar of Justice, to satisfy all of the Law’s demands on my behalf. It is thus by God’s own authority in the offer of salvation by his Word, unto any and all alike, that we have a right to lay hold of Christ and eternal life forever.
In the Gospel, God brings us to the threshold of the open door to his house of mercy, where we are able to peer into all the vast treasures stored up there. The Lord graciously calls us to come over to Him through this blood-splattered door into his house.
The sinner, in hearing God’s sweet voice calling Him to come to Him, by God’s grace, lays hold of Christ offered, by faith, and replaces the Gospel-promises of ‘if you’, with ‘me’ and ‘mine’, receiving Christ to the eternal salvation of one’s soul and the title to all of God’s promised riches with Him.
This work is from Gib's The Present Truth: A Display of the Secession Testimony, vol. 2, Progression 5.
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